Z-Man wrote:Misery wrote:Not to be TOO critical, but I don't think that seven beeps constitutes a "Theme".
Correct, if I anything stuck from in my music education, then that would be a "Motive"
Er, if "motif" is the word you're looking for, that's not it either. A motif is where you have a passage of music that you build on over time, layering on more instruments and so forth. Go back to Orion, or Call of Ktulu, if you're in a Metallica mood. The instrumental on ...And Justice for All also has a motif in there somewhere.
Oh yeah, my song for Crimson Fields is a motif. And grrrr, I don't happen to have a link to it. There's a motif in the middle of the 1812 Overture, too. I think it's the big long passage right before it starts building to the cannon shots.
Anyway, this isn't even really enough to call it a phrase. And if it were me, that particular keyboard sound would never be a lead singer, it would always and only (if used) be for texturing. That's just my preferences, though, I like guitars and I'm not ashamed of that. This little section of music is more like a riff, and I can see several variations it can take, have them all strung together, and you get a passage. You still need a melody or a theme to put over it, of course.
Oh yeah, the little theme that starts off the game in the trunk is a small motif, but I've actually got that lead passage expanded into a theme in my head, just haven't had much time to play guitar lately. Also, the music provided by Raoul Duke that plays while you're in the UI is a motif, iirc. Most of his music is motif stuff. I suspect that has more to do with experience. Even in the classical composers, earlier works tended to use a lot of motifs because they're easy, and it can be really hard to break free from them. Same reason you see a lot of modern bands, when they do instrumentals, they wind up with motifs. Once you break out of the verse/chorus pattern used in most popular music, you get into an area that's pretty difficult to work in when you're used to the verse/chorus pattern. AFAIK, the only Iron Maiden instrumental ever was supposed to have lyrics, they just couldn't think of any, so it's an instrumental that goes in the verse/chorus pattern. They don't tend to have problems breaking that pattern, though, so they're not a very good example.
On the other hand, if you meant "movement", this just isn't long enough to be called a movement. A movement is a complete section, like a match in arma. It has a beginning, moves continuously through the middle and arrives at the end, and may have one or more themes expressed in it, although it usually only has one theme. The imperial march is a movement, but movie music gets hard to classify into such terminology because it has to segue into other sections pretty quickly to match the action in the movie.
Anyway, enough blabbering. querty, I'm sorry, I don't really enjoy the electronica stuff either. As a lead instrument, that particular kind of keyboard noise gives me a headache. Of course, my own favorite lead noise gives other people headaches, so I'm not trying to make a personal judgement. I'd be interested in seeing how you work it into a theme.
) I were thinking to a music. At this very moment, I stopped to do what I were doing (so my lightcycle crashed) and i told to myself: "Hey, what a nice song. I'm sure it can become a good music theme for ArmagetronAd" So, that why I'm posting i this fourm.
